Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 614 Bronze City Fortress

"There are more than a hundred city ruins discovered on Planet Alpha, but most of them are C-level and D-level ruins, and there are very few urban ruins that can be rated as B-level... You know why the ancient copper city ruins are A-level Super ruins?" Ghost Owl said slowly with a sullen face.

"Why?" Ye Yan asked innocently on the screen in the lower right corner - the Ye family is different from the Gray Bird Hunting Group. As an aristocratic family who has cooperated with the military for a long time, from the moment this war was finalized , they were already tied to the chariot.

"Because it's not a city at all, but a fortress." Ghost Owl said every word.

Every word he uttered was like a powerful drum beat on the hearts of everyone participating in the video conference.

"Fortress?!" Ye Yan couldn't help exclaiming, "One, an Alpha Civilization Fortress controlled by a heretic sect, how could this be defeated!"

"Although I have heard some news about the ruins of the Bronze City, this is the first thing I have heard about the fortress." Ke Lan said, "Since you have been to that place, Mr. Ghost Owl, please also describe the fortress in detail. That exploration experience."

"That's right!" Ye Yan quickly echoed, "The Ye's Consortium is willing to pay you a handsome sum of money in exchange for information on the ruins of the ancient bronze city."

"The architectural arrangement of the ruins is very different from other Alpha cities." Ghost Owl said, "I don't know if you have heard that in ancient China, there was something called 'array'?"

"...Array? Does it mean the formation of the army in ancient marches and battles?" the hound couldn't help asking.

"That's also a kind of formation, but I'm referring to the application of formation in architecture." Ghost Owl said.

"Architecture... do you mean something similar to the Eight Diagrams Array?" Ke Lan asked.

"What Bagua formation? Isn't Tai Chi Bagua the pattern on the national flag of South Korea in the old era?" Ye Yan suddenly asked a question that made people speechless.

Ghost Owl: "..."

"Young Master Ye... You are so embarrassing. You are a descendant of the Huaxia tribe. How come you don't even know the Tai Chi gossip of your ancestors?" The hound suppressed a smile and complained.

"Fuck? Is Tai Chi gossip originally something in our Chinese culture? These sticks are too good at stealing, right? Everything is stolen, even the national patterns of a dignified country... are they all stolen from our Chinese culture? ?” Ye Yan blushed immediately—as a dandy who is proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun, he is really not very interested in things like ancient cultures from the old era... After all, when flirting with girls, they talk about food and art Even talking about things like luxury goods can achieve the purpose of pretending to be coercive.But if you go to talk to a girl about this pile of difficult and obscure things thousands of years ago... I'm afraid the girl will walk away without interest.

"The 'Eight Diagrams Array' I'm talking about comes from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, also known as the 'Eight Arrays Map'. Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Kingdom, once set up such a maze array with huge stones in a place called Yubupu, stopping Wu Guo Lu Xun. Tens of thousands of pursuers." Ke Lan explained.

"Such an exaggeration? A few stones can stop an army of tens of thousands? Even if it is a maze, it can be filled with the number of people." Ye Yan said in amazement.

"Of course the novel contains some exaggeration, but similar formations do exist... In fact, the 'maze' that is very common in the ruins of the Alpha civilization can be regarded as the embodiment of the 'formation' The product." Ke Lan continued.

"The ruins of the Bronze City itself is a huge maze." Ghost Owl nodded, and then said, "This is a maze specially set up for military purposes. According to the capacity of the city ruins, let alone tens of thousands of soldiers... …Even if 1 million people put in it, they would be trapped to death.”

"How did the name Bronze City Ruins come about, you all should know?" Ghost Owl asked.

"I know... I just went to check the information..." Ye Yan scratched his fleshy double chin with some embarrassment, and said, "It's because all the buildings in the city use copper as the main component. The alloy was built, so it is called the Bronze City."

"Then have you ever thought about why the buildings in the Bronze City use this alloy...instead of lower-cost earth-rock concrete or high-molecular polymers?" Ghost Owl asked again.

"Perhaps... for Alpha people, the cost of copper alloy is lower?" Ye Yan asked with some uncertainty.

"No, although I don't know the correct answer, but your statement is definitely wrong." Layton shook his head again and again, "Although the copper reserves on Planet Alpha are not barren, they are not rich either... For the civilization of the entire planet, this amount of reserves can only be regarded as barely enough. The value of important metal resources like copper is definitely higher than that of concrete and plastics that can be synthesized by chemical means."

"Then why do they use copper alloy to cast the city?" Ye Yan was puzzled.

"Because copper is an excellent conductor." Ghost Owl said, "The whole city...or the whole fortress is actually a super-large weapon. Every building in the ruins can become a deadly weapon. arms."

"What do you mean? Does it mean that every floor in this city can be electrified, and everyone who enters it will be electrocuted to death?" The hound raised his eyebrows, "It's not so much a fortress, I'd rather say it This thing is an oversized torture device."

"If it was just high-voltage electricity, then my hunters would not have been sacrificed." Ghost Owl sighed, "The whole city is not only a conductor...it is even a giant energy shield generator."

"A city-scale energy shield generator?" Layton said in surprise, "Then... how terrible is the energy consumption? If it is not launched in the form of a shield but as a weapon, it should be able to destroy the Ark with one shot." wear it?"

"When we explored the ruins of the Bronze City, the defenses of this fortress had not been activated...but even such a dormant fortress claimed the lives of nine elite hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Squad." Ghost Owl sighed again, "How about this, I will post the recorded video of the original exploration, and after watching it, you should understand how dangerous this ruin is..."

After a short progress bar, the camera on Ghost Owl's side switched to a slightly blurred video image.

This video seems to be shot with a portable video recording device mounted on the helmet. From the time in the upper right corner, we can know that the shooting time was in 941 in the new era, which is a span of ten years.

The position of the video shooter is the "central defender", which is located in the middle of the entire team. In front are four "vanguards" wearing light-weight powered exoskeletons, and about 30 meters in front of the "vanguards", there is a lone "vanguard". scout".

The position of "scout" is the most dangerous position in the entire hunter team. Generally speaking, hunters who serve as "scouts" are either the kind of "consumables" sent out to mine, or the kind of bold and careful hunters. Veteran... and this "scout" of the Gray Bird Hunting Group obviously belongs to the latter.

This is a female hunter with a petite figure, wearing a highly elastic combat uniform that is very close to the body, and the combat uniform completely outlines her body line - she is very thin, as thin as a stick , the flat chest is almost indistinguishable from that of a man... But for scouts, those two piles of fat are unnecessary burdens, but this kind of lean body is the best.

The smaller the body, the more places it can get into... At the same time, the smaller the range that will be affected by various mechanisms.

"The scout's code name is 'Hummingbird'. She is a veteran. Although she is only 19 years old, she has six years of experience in relic exploration..." The ghost owl's voice sounded outside the screen.

"Six years of exploration experience at 19 years old? Didn't she start working as a hunter at 13 years old? I remember that the hunter qualification certificate can only be taken when you are an adult?" Ye Yan muttered, "It is illegal to use child labor. ..."

With six years of exploration experience, she is definitely already a "senior" figure in the hound circle, and her exploration experience is even more than half of the people in the Hunting God Hunting Group - the data of exploration experience is not based on simple It doesn’t mean that if you explored the ruins ten years ago, and then explored them again ten years later, you would be considered a “ten-year old hunter”.According to the official identification standard, only if you explore D-level or above ruins more than five times in a year, this year will be counted as "experience".

"She was indeed an illegal hunter, but at that time she was not a member of the Gray Bird Hunting Group. She was 'bought' by another hunting group..." Ghost Owl explained.

"I bought it... did I buy it as a scout?" the hound couldn't help asking.The scout in his sentence naturally refers to the first type of "consumables".

"Yes. But maybe it was because of her talent, or maybe it was because of luck. She survived four times of exploring the ruins and redeemed her free body. After that, she was in several hunting groups Li worked as an "illegal hunter" without a license for several years, and all of his positions were scouts... until during a joint exploration operation, he was spotted by the head of the Gray Bird Hunting Group at the time, and spent a lot of money to dig it .Of course, she was already an adult at that time and obtained the legal hunter qualification." Seemingly worried that others would misunderstand the Gray Bird Hunting Group, Ghost Owl added a sentence at the end.

"I just checked on the Internet." Ivan's voice interjected, "The elite relic hunter 'Hummingbird' obtained the hunter qualification certificate in 939 of the New Era. It was the Gray Bird Hunting Group. At that time, it belonged to a well-known 'scout' in the hunter circle, but unfortunately died in the process of the Gray Bird Hunting Group exploring the A-941 'Bronze City Ruins' in 009."

"...in 941, the gray bird hunting group died in the process of exploring the A-009 'Ancient Bronze City Ruins'?" Ye Yan repeated this sentence, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, "That is to say, it is the video this time in the

As soon as the words were finished, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up on the video screen. Ye Yan, the hound and others couldn't help squinting their eyes, while Ke Lan stared at the screen firmly.

The camera was shaking violently, and the person in charge of carrying the video equipment seemed to have fallen to the ground in the process of backing up. The camera first pulled to the sky directly above, and then swung it down quickly, looking at the ahead.

Directly ahead was the source of the white light that almost blinded everyone just now.

At that time, there was a thick energy shield—to be precise, it should be a dazzling wall of light.This wall of light blocked the entire street. As for the scout "Hummingbird" who was standing there, he disappeared completely in this wall without even a scream. In the light curtain wall formed by the energy body, there is not even a trace left.

"She... she... she... is she dead?" Ye Yan was obviously a little frightened, and even stuttered.

"Yes." Ghost Owl's voice sounded again, "She died, not even the body was left behind. The whole person, including the equipment on her body, was vaporized the moment the light curtain appeared."

The light wall did not stay in place, but began to advance along the street, and the hunters of the Gray Bird Hunting Group ran away—they reacted quickly, but even so, the few hunters who ran at the end of the team were still killed by the light. The wall caught up and "swallowed" it in... When the light wall disappeared and everyone stopped, the person carrying the video equipment turned around, and now only the four avant-garde guards who were behind him were left. last person.

In the process of fleeing for his life, another hunter accidentally tripped and fell to the ground - no one helped him, because it was too late, and saving people would only increase casualties... Although he was not seen in the camera. The screen caught up by the wall, but through the shouting that stopped abruptly outside the screen, his ending can naturally be imagined.

A wall of light that appeared and disappeared suddenly caused the elite gray bird hunting group to lose five hunters in an instant.

"The moving speed of the light wall is very fast. According to my judgment, it is about eight to ten meters per second. This is very close to the world record of the [-]-meter race in the old era." Ghost Owl said.

"That is to say, without the help of vehicles, only enhanced humans can outrun this thing?" Layton said.

"Yes. The duration of the light wall is not fixed, some only last for a few seconds, and some last for nearly half a minute." Ghost Owl said.

"You mean, you encountered a wall of light more than once in the ruins of the ancient bronze city?" Ke Lan asked, "Do you know the trigger conditions for this mechanism?"

"Unfortunately, the trigger conditions are completely unknown." Ghost Owl's tone was very heavy, "I'm not even sure whether the light wall was triggered by us, or it appeared randomly in the city... Sometimes, even multiple wall of light."

(End of this chapter)